1/ CANDIDATE

Register, formulate a statement, shoot a short video with your motivation and publish it before January 31 2019. Go viral to convince the public and collect votes.

2/ PRESELECTION

A professional jury consisting of leaders from ICT industry will nominate three candidates with the best motivation and public support on February 15.

3/ GRAND FINAL

After a keynote of jury member Dominique Deckmyn , the three finalists will present their vision at BluePoint Brussels (Agoria building). The finalists are awarded 1000, 250 and 250 EUR.

Rules for the pre-selection

1. Any individual not over 32 on December 31 2018 can apply.
2. Contestants should register and formulate a statement. Then submit a short video with motivation on youtube using format 4:3 before January 31 2019 - 23h45.
3. After registration, we will create a page for each contestant where votes can be collected, on the condition that your vision is related to AI-technology and robotics and fits within the FITCE.be context.
4. Contestants should share their video on social media to increase interest for their statement and collect votes.
5. Price of the public: the video with most votes at February 15 2019 - 18h00, has immediately a ticket for the grand final.
6. A jury will select two other nominees for the grand final.
7. These three best ranked candidates will compete in the final debate on March 11, 2019 - 18h00.

Rules for the Final

Each finalist will get 20 minutes to explain their vision, statement and motivation, followed by a Q&A session where the jury and public will challenge the finalist. .
A professional jury will finally evaluate the contestants on originality, innovation, presentation skills and impact potential.
The winner takes home 1000 EUR, while the other two finalists receive 250 EUR.
All participants to the contest receive a free FITCE.be membership.

Example

Brecht Reynders, the FITCE young ICT professional 2016 is not convinced that robotics and AI are the most important technology for the future. See how Brecht motivates his 2018 statement in this example video

Innovations in the domains of AI and robotics are for sure triggering a lot of questions relevant to ICT professionals today. This is broad enough to position your statement. You can relate a variety of statements to the field of robotics and AI, addressing not only technology but also the broader impact, law, policy or society.

Yes, you can! As long as you haven't submitted.
After registering you only have to enter your personal data and a statement. You are free to upload a video later and edit your content. Once submitted you can start collecting votes using your social media contacts.

You have to share your video on social media with a link to this website YICT.be . Here the public can vote on one candidate. All candidates are visible in the tab 'Candidates'. Likes or Comments on other social media are not counted.

“The success of your presentation will be judged not by the knowledge you send but by what the listener receives.” – Lilly Walters

“If you don’t know what you want to achieve in your presentation, I'm afraid your audience never will neither.” – Harvey Diamond

“If you can’t write your message in a sentence, you can’t say it in an hour.” – Dianna Booher

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